Structure
You can complete your English Literature and Linguistics degree in three or four years. If you choose to do a year abroad this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.
YEAR 1
In English, you will take the following modules (all compulsory):
- Poetry (15 credits)
- London Global (30 credits)
- Literatures in Time Epic and Romance in the Middle Ages (15 credits)
In Linguistics, you will take the following two compulsory modules:
- Foundations of Language (30 credits)
- Sociolinguistics: English in Use (15 credits)
In addition, students choose 15 credits from linguistics modules at level 4.
YEAR 2
In English you will take one 30 credit module from List One or Two, and at least one module from Lists Three or Four:
List One: Medieval and Early-Modern Studies
- Chaucer: Gender, Faith, Identity
- Renaissance Drama
- Renaissance Literary Culture
List Two: Eighteenth Century Studies, Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Representing London: Writing the Eighteenth Century City
- Romantics and Revolutionaries
- Victorian Fictions
List Three: Modern, Contemporary, and Postcolonial Studies
- The Long Contemporary
- Modernism
- Postcolonial and Global Literatures
List 4: Special Options (this list changes each year). Modules may include:
- American Romanticsm
- Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
- Global Shakespeare
- James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
- Terror, Transgression and Astonishment: the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century
- The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics, 1918-1948
- The Thousand and One Nights
In Linguistics, students normally choose 60 Credits optional linguistics modules at level 5 from a wide range of options that changes each year. Modules may include:
- Aspects of Meaning
- Explaining Grammatical Structure
- History of English
- Language and Mind
- Language in the USA
- Research Methods in Linguistics
- Semantics of African American English
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
YEAR 3
You will take one of the following modules:
- English Research Dissertation
- English/Linguistics Research Project
You then choose your final-year elective modules from a wide range of options that changes each year. In English, your selection will normally include one 30 credit option module.
Elective modules may include:
- Beyond Language: Multimodality in Theory and Practice
- British Fictions of the 1960s
- Constructing a Language
- Creative Writing Prose Fiction
- Developmental Disorders of Language and Cognition
- Feminism(s)
- Gender and Language
- Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
- Heroes and Outlaws in History and Fiction from 1100 to 1600
- James Joyce's Ulysses
- Language and Health Communication
- Meaning in the Real World, Sex
- Reading Late Victorian Literature
- Shakespeare: the Play, the Word and the Book
- Teaching Trans Lives
- Time, Narrative and Culture
- Writing Black and Asian Britain
This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
